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May 29, 2018

1Buddhists carry candles as they pray during Vesak Day, an annual celebration of Buddha's birth, enlightenment and death, at a temple in Chonburi province, Thailand.

2Fishing boats carry a group of Palestinian activists who are protesting and perhaps trying to breach Israel's naval blockade on Gaza, boating from Gaza City harbor. The Gaza Strip has been under Israeli blockade for more than a decade, with Israel saying it is necessary to prevent the Palestinian enclave's militant Hamas rulers from obtaining the means to attack the Jewish state.

4Police try to calm a man at the scene of a shooting in Liege, Belgium. A gunman killed three people, including two police officers in Liege, a city official said. Police later killed the attacker, and other officers were wounded in the shooting.